Born in
Dresden, the son of a chamber musician at the Saxon State Theatre, he attended the Royal Saxon Kapellknaben Institute in Dresden and was appointed Kapellmeisteraspirant at the
Dresdner Hofkapelle by
Ernst von Schuch in 1905. In 1912, he was appointed
Kapellmeister. For more than 50 years, he was committed to Dresden's musical life as a teacher, conductor, musician and composer. From 1939 to 1945, he directed the , the Dresden Men's Singing Society and was
docent for
composition, conductor training and
instrumentation teaching at the orchestra school of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Strieglers' students include the composer, writer,
librettist and director Robert Bosshart, the conductor
Rolf Kleinert and the composer and conductor
Herbert Trantow. Striegler was a member of the
NSDAP and in 1933 succeeded
Paul Büttner, director of the
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and
Fritz Busch, general music director of the
Semperoper, both of whom had been forced out of office by the National Socialist rulers. In 1950, Striegler moved to Munich. In 1953, the painter and
graphic artist Otto Dix created the
lithograph "Kurt Striegler". Striegler died in 1958 in
Wildthurn/Landau aged 72. He was laid to rest in the
Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. == Work (selection) ==